Collar-button-vending apparatus.



vPatented Nov. 4, |902. M. F. PRICE.

GULLAR BUTTON VENDI-NG APPARATUS.

(Application led Dec. 13, 1900.)

(No Model.)

W/ TNE SSE S PRICE, a citizen of the'U'nited States, and a ATaNT Ormea MILBER-T FRANKLIN PRICE, OF IOWA CITY, IOWA.

COLLA'R-BUTTONVENDING APPARATUS.`

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 71 2,962, dated November 4, 1902.

Original application filed May 16, 190Q, Serial No. 16,867. Divided and this-application filed December 13, 1900. 'Serial No.

v Y 39,626. (No model.)

` D To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MILBERT FRANKLIN resident of Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, have invented a new, and Improved Gollar-Button-Vending Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a full, clear,A and exact description.

This invention relates to a machine de=` signed especially for vending collar-buttons, and the machine is of such character that it is readily adaptable to coin-controlled operating devices, thus enabling me toA provide a coin-controlled collar -button-vending apparatus.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter def scribed, and pointed vout in the claim.

Reference is to'be had to the accompanyingY drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar'charactersuot reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.V

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the vending-V machine, showing it combined with one form of mechanism for operating it by the insertion of a coin. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional View illustrating a certain step in the operation of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front view ofthe collar-button chute, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4t 4E of Fig. 1.

As here shown, the mechanism is mounted in a casing 14a, which may be of any form desired. Within the casing is mounted a chute 18a, which is in the form of a flattened tube provided with a longitudinally-disposed slot in its fiat front face. This chute is adapted to carry the collar-buttons 19a, the structure of the chute being such that the bases of the collar-buttons may be snugly, yet slidaloly, fitted therein, while the shanks of the buttons are permitted to project through the slot in the'chute, so as to expose the heads of said buttons, the chute thus becoming a means for displaying the collar-buttons forinspection, as well as a guide to the pointV of delivery of the collar-buttons. This structure of the chute also enables me to superimpose the collar-buttons within the chute in such a manner as to provide for their delivery without danger of failure. According to the construction shown in the drawings the chute lda delivers the buttons upon a ledge or platform 20, and the lower end of the chute may be curved and projected Vforwardly for this purpose.

The merchandise-chute is combined with devices for holding the collar-buttons in the chute and for individually releasing the buttons, so that the buttons may be separately delivered upon the platform or table 20. The Ybutton-delivering mechanism shown in the drawings comprises two pins 37 and 38, which are carried on an arm 33a, pivoted to the chute 19%L and pressed on at its upper end,y

by a light spring 39, arranged as shown. The pin 37 constitutes astop-pin and serves to hold the column of buttons (indicated at 19n in the drawings) inthe button-chute. This pin passes through the side edge or around the side of the button-chute and is turned back to project into the same, as shown best in Fig. 4t. The pin 3Sa constitutes a release-pin, which is straight and is projected through the back Wall of the chute. These pins are arranged to act alternately-that is to say, when the pin 37 is passed into the chute across the path of the collar-buttons the pin 35"L will be withdrawn, andvice versa. The arm 33a swings back and forth in its action, and thus alternately projects and retracts the pins. When the pin 37:L moves out of the path of the collar-buttons, the pin 38 will be moved into said path, and the column of buttons will then drop until they rest on the pin 88a. When this pin is Withdrawn, the pin 37a' moves back, thereby engaging the stack of buttons at a point above the lowermost button. buttons, but releases the lowermost button, which passes down the lower end of the button-chu te and ont to the purchaser. Various mechanisms may be employed for operating the arm 33a. One form of this mechanism is shown in the accompanying drawings. Another form is shown in my copending application, iiled'May 16, 1900, Serial No. '16,867, of which copending application the present application is a division. According to the device illustrated in the present application the arm 33a is operated by direct engagement with thevcoin, which is projected through the coin-chute "0 said chute having an opening This holds the upper- IOO spring 39.

in its side edge, into which opening the arm 33a is moved by the pressure of the spring 39. When the coin is inserted in the chute 22, it engages the arm 33a and moves it outward, and then as the coin passes out of the chute 22y the arm is returned by theaetion of the This is sufficient to deliver one collar-button. f f

Havingy thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to seeure'by Letters Patentf f f In f a. collar-button-vending apparatus, the combination with a collar-button chute in the forrnof a fiattened tube, one flat weily of which is formed with a,longitudinaliy-disposed slot, the tube being capable of receiving the bases of the collar-buttons and the slot permitting the Shanks ofthe buttons.y to project therethrough, of an arm pivoted :tt its upper end to the rear of the chute, a'. spring engaging the zo pivoted end of the arm'andfnormally holdingV the free end of the arm away from the chute,

pins secured tothe free end of the arm and f projecting forwardly therefrom oneabove the f other, one of the pins being straight and passing through the back wall of the chute, and

i the other passing through the sidefedge of the yMILBERT FRANKLiN PRICE; Witnesses:

HATTIE M. SHOALs,r FRED HifSHoALs. 

